Example sentences of "[verb] to see [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to see inside the castle , I just want to walk around the outside and sketch anything that looks interesting . ’ |
| 2 | This is n't the kind of thing we 'd want to see in the minutes , is it ? ’ |
| 3 | There was a minor scuffle between Hegarty and a Unionist councillor and before desisting , Hegarty shouted to the gallery : ‘ Whom do you want to see in the chair ? ’ |
| 4 | He writes : ‘ If we are pressed to see in the doctrine of the Trinity some clue to the sense that gender … must have something corresponding to it in the God-head , one would find in the unconditioned Unity of God something like the feminine in creation , while the differentiated Persons , on the other hand , have each a masculine denomination . ’ |
| 5 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 6 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 7 | As a food and store safety officer , I felt dismayed and frustrated to see in the Journal , members of staff wearing inappropriate jewellery and , in high risk areas , all hair not kept within hats . |
| 8 | Johnson responded to this courteous , gentlemanly Highlander ; Boswell failed to see beyond the Gael , the Jacobite . |
| 9 | Can you be more explicit about what it is you want to see in the North Yorkshire structure plan ? |
| 10 | Once you have formulated your idea of what you want to see in the future , then you need to focus on how you can get there . |
| 11 | It will certainly make you see how much you do not see , and then you can decide how much you want to see in the future . |
| 12 | I do n't need to see through the sheet to know that Anya 's flushed brick red , and that her eyes are fixed on somewhere quite far to the east of the Walthamstow marshes . |
| 13 | I would of course have to write to Miss Kenton to tell her I might be passing by ; I would also need to see to the matter of the costumes . |
| 14 | Tried to see past the antipathy he always aroused in her . |
| 15 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 16 | The few pieces of furniture looked old , solid , and unprepossessing , the kind of stuff that Pete would have expected to see at the bargain end of a market-town auction . |
| 17 | Members of the public are expressly asked not to gather on Albert Road or Russell Street , or to climb on buildings to try to see inside the Mayor 's parlour . |
| 18 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 19 | One day Leo came to see to the plants in the conservatory . |
| 20 | This time , when he received no answer , he moved across to the window and , cupping one hand over his eyes , endeavoured to see inside the flat . |
| 21 | And most of them were blind , even the decent ones , for they never seemed to see below the skin . |
| 22 | It prepared them for exactly the kind of material they can expect to see on the day — and because it is written by the examiners themselves , you can be sure that it tells you exactly what the examiners are looking for ! |
| 23 | First Class offers plenty of realistic reading material with interesting examples of the kinds of documents trainees can expect to see in the workplace such as letters , faxes , telexes , bills , and receipts . |
| 24 | Are there any similar developments in the Programme of Work for this session which you can expect to see in the Catalogue for 1989/90 ? |
| 25 | I kept wondering what it had to do with the cowboy we were going to see on the screen . |
| 26 | ‘ I left him in the house ; I said I was going to see to the goats . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Secondly , I believe you will begin to see during the night the cracks opening at last in the moulds that have held British politics in sterile opposition between two major parties for so long . |
| 28 | The only uniformity of practice that the Board of Education desires to see in the teaching of Public Elementary schools is that each teacher should think for himself and work out for himself such methods of teaching as may use his powers to the best advantage and be best suited to the particular needs and conditions of the school . |
| 29 | Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself . |
| 30 | But what is for the most part in these stories a quiet desperation , is achieved at the cost of suppressing part of his own awareness , part of his own truth , and how bad that was we begin to see with The Portrait . |